Targeting Americans (2019) | 60 Minutes Archive
In a Nutshell
In 2016-2017, 25 US diplomats and families in Cuba and 15 in China, including Mark Lindsay and Katherine Warner in Guangzhou, suffered severe brain injuries—headaches, memory loss, vision issues—from mysterious attacks with sounds like rolling marbles and symptoms matching microwave or RF energy weapons, per victims and NSA insights. Medical studies at University of Pennsylvania confirmed concussion-like brain trauma without impact; Secretary Pompeo validated China cases as similar to Cuba's, yet State Department denies attack status, denying victims benefits amid FBI probes suspecting Russia, Cuba, or China. Broader fears persist of ongoing threats to Americans abroad, with Canadians also affected in Cuba.
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In 2016 and 2017, 25 Americans, including CIA agents at the US embassy in Cuba, suffered serious brain injuries causing impaired vision, memory loss, and other persistent symptoms. At least 15 American officials in China suffered unexplained brain trauma soon after. The FBI is investigating whether these Americans were attacked by a mysterious weapon that leaves no trace. Evidence points to a hostile foreign government's plan to target Americans serving abroad and their families.
Mark Lindsay, a State Department security officer at the US consulate in Guangzhou, China, started feeling lightheaded in November 2017, with increasing headaches. His wife also had headaches. They heard strange sounds in their apartment: like a marble rolling in a 6-foot diameter metal funnel, getting faster toward the hole—loud, heard 3-4 times over his son's crib right before bedtime. Symptoms worsened: headaches, short-term memory loss. Lindsay wears prescribed glasses due to light sensitivity. He believes he was targeted for using top-secret equipment to analyze electronic threats to diplomatic missions. "There is no shadow of a doubt in my mind that this was a directed attack against my neighbor and I."
Katherine Warner's Symptoms
Katherine Warner, Lindsay's neighbor one floor up, a US Commerce Department trade officer promoting American business from the Guangzhou consulate, woke up with intense pressure on both temples and a low oscillating humming sound in her head—painful. Symptoms started October 2017: hives all over body, daily headaches, extreme fatigue, vomiting, nosebleeds. Even her dogs threw up blood. She initially thought it was China's toxic smog. Her mother stayed 3 months and developed the same symptoms: headaches, ringing in ears, difficulty recalling words. Werner was medically evacuated to the US after reporting. She didn't know details of Havana incidents, only headlines about hearing loss and attacks on diplomats.
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